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The University of Colorado, a member of a consortium of universities and federal agencies dedicated to helping improve the scientific base for managing Rocky Mountain ecosystems, will hold a public colloquium on the Boulder campus Nov. 5.

Sommers-Bausch Observatory on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a number of public activities during the weekend of Nov. 14-16. Public tours, lectures, celestial and solar viewing and a fundraising dinner and silent auction will be part of the anniversary celebration. Former astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman, who has flown five space shuttle missions, is expected to speak at the fundraising dinner.

The unique properties of water will be the subject of the CU Wizards show "H2O!" on Saturday, Nov. 15. University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Casey Hynes will present the show at 9:30 a.m. in Cristol Chemistry and Biochemistry room 140. The show is aimed at students in grades five through nine and is free and open to the public.

Star and constellation myths from the Navajo and Lakota traditions will be featured in November during live astronomy shows at Fiske Planetarium on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus. "Navajo Skies," presented by CU-Boulder professor of astrophysical and planetary sciences John Stocke, will take place Friday, Nov. 14, and Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 7:30 p.m. Lakota storytellers will take part in "Watchers of the Ancient Skies" on Nov. 15 and 16 at 2 p.m.

A one-day only campuswide immunization clinic for meningitis and flu shots is being offered by the Wardenburg Health Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Thursday, Nov. 6, and should be a "must do" activity for students who live in the residence halls, said Robert Cranny, director of Wardenburg. Cranny's recommendation is in line with health officials nationally who support the shots for college-age adults, especially those living in group settings such as campus residence halls.

For the second time this year, Colorado skywatchers will be treated to a total eclipse of the moon, according to experts at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Sommers-Bausch Observatory and Fiske Planetarium. The total lunar eclipse will occur in the twilight hours of Saturday, Nov. 8, when at about 6 p.m. the moon will be totally eclipsed. The total eclipse will last less than 30 minutes.

Professor William M. Lewis Jr. of the University of Colorado at Boulder will lecture Nov. 12 on a controversy involving the Endangered Species Act that has received coast-to-coast attention. "Science, Policy and Politics in the Klamath Basin" will begin at 7 p.m. in the Chautauqua Community House at 900 Baseline Road in Boulder. The talk is part of the 2003-04 Chancellor's Community Lecture Series and is free and open to the public.

An award-winning African forestry management researcher will offer his insights at the University of Colorado at Boulder Nov. 3-11 thanks to the efforts of the university's Developing Areas Research and Teaching, or DART, program. Richard Nyirenda, of the Centre for International Forestry Research in Zimbabwe, will exchange ideas with CU-Boulder faculty and students during lectures as well as a Nov. 5 public colloquium and informal meetings with interested scholars.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will kick off a major new program, the Tocqueville Initiative for the Study of America in a Globalizing World, with a Nov. 3 lecture on "Why America Is Not an Empire and Why This Matters." Professor Desmond King, the Andrew Mellon Professor of American Government at Oxford University in England, will give the talk at 5 p.m. in Old Main Chapel on the CU-Boulder campus. The event is free and open to the public.

The Cultural Events Board of the University of Colorado at Boulder will host a lecture by political pundit and author Ann Coulter on Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. in Macky Auditorium. Coulter, a lawyer, writer and syndicated columnist for Universal Press Syndicate, is dedicated to the defense of individual rights with particular emphasis on freedom of speech, civil rights and the free exercise of religion. She is often asked to provide a counterbalance for the liberal point of view on TV shows such as Larry King Live, Hannity and Colmes, The O'Reilly Factor, Crossfire and others.